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I use torsmo to display a lot of information - the date and time among other things. It displays text information directly on the desktop. Here is a screenshot of it next to the E workspace switcher. I also use the Firefox datetime extension to display the time in the right of the Firefox status bar (getting crowded there now ).

I am not aware of a way to set the location and geometry from .torsmorc but if anyone else can show me I would be very happy. I launch torsmo from my .xsession file which also launches lineakd and my window manager, so I have the location set there on the torsmo line.

The "wtf?" lines indicate you have something fishy in your .torsmorc on the lines 53 and 55.

Well, one problem I fixed, there is no more "WTF?",
but there is still question about positioning torsmo on the desktop.
If I type in Xterm -> torsmo -a top_left -x 165 -y 695 then It is positioned correctly,
but when I put such record in my .xsession file then I've got only "top_left" and "-x 165 -y 695" left ignored !
How you set the location ?

But have'nt you noticed something strange in window manager behavior?
I use enlightenment 17 and after torsmo start I can see some artifacts,
application windows sometimes don't redraw until I place another application window on them and remove!
That is really strange maybe it is connected with "own_window yes " option in .torsmorc file?